@CultureDesk @AssociatedPress We can blame this awful state of affairs for women in Africa on centuries of Christian missionary brainwashing and European colonial misogyny.

@AlexGallagher even if someone had somehow never met a woman in their life, we are human beinga first and foremost and being defined in relationship to or in terms of our usefulness and importance to men continues to dehumanise us.http://www.nerdyfeminist.com/2013/08/shes-someone-vs-narcissistic-fatherhood.html?m=1(I know this isn't your belief because you said it in your last point, re decent human beings, but we see these refrains our whole lives and it's good to be aware of how it fails to break out of the sexism and misogyny mold)#feminism #feminism #equality #childfree